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The Amarillo Department of Public Health has noted an increase in the number of positive rapidflu tests in the last week, Director of Public Health Matt Richardson said Friday. "We're seeing the beginning of flu season in...

...moderated in the past two weeks, according to the Bi-City-County Public Health Department. The number of positive rapidflu tests, screening tests run in providers' offices, peaked at 104 for the week ending Feb. 4. The number of positive...

...Department, Dr. J. Rush Pierce, the public health authority, said. "It's not perfect," Dr. Pierce said of the rapidflu test. "Last week, we received three reports of influenza that were positive. We haven't had any positive cultures...

...against a deadly strain of the virus that could spread worldwide from Southeast Asia. "We're going to monitor the rapidflu test results from several physicians' offices to try to test the influenza activity in the community," said Matt Richardson...

...of Amarillo, said that the death occurred in one of the city's nine largest nursing homes and was confirmed with a rapidflu test. Three deaths from the flu occurred in March at the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care System. "I heard...

...Bi-City-County Health Department, said Wednesday that from Jan. 4 until Monday the agency received three positive rapidflu tests for influenza A, bringing the total number of cases to 10 since Dec. 28. "That's down from last year, so...

...director of the Amarillo Public Health Department. "It makes us more vigilant. It makes us really pay attention to these rapidflu tests," Richardson said. "We want to be transparent on all of the activities that the health department, the health...

...Baptist St. Anthony's Health System, said Tuesday afternoon. Based on the patient's symptoms, the patient gets a rapidflu test. Since last week, the laboratory has been testing 35 to 40 patients per day. About 20 percent of those come back...

...illnesses in at least half of the state's regions, according to information from the state. But either office-based rapidflu tests or more precise laboratory tests have confirmed 15 cases in Potter and Randall counties, Pierce said. "It looks...